Australian GPS and IoT hardware development company Digital Matter has released its 2022 battery-powered asset-tracking hardware roadmap with cellular LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, enabling global IoT asset tracking applications.

Optimised for lower power operation, next year’s battery-powered devices will feature deploy-once battery life and use approximately a fifth of the power of the current GNSS range without sacrificing performance or reliability. The updated devices also support roaming between LTE-M and NB-IoT networks with marginal impact on battery life or performance.

The upcoming range uses cell tower location fallback, allowing the devices to determine location when out of GNSS coverage, as well as enhanced intelligent power management options including balanced, low-power and ultra-low power network registration strategies, and accelerometer-based location scan throttling to reduce power and data usage.

The devices include the Oyster 3, Yabby 3 and Remora 3, as well as devices such as the Yabby Core and Edge portfolio, featuring indoor and outdoor asset tracking and cloud-based location finding.

According to a study by analyst ABI Research, asset tracking is one of the highest-growth segments in the IoT market with an expected growth rate of 51 per cent per year to 2024 as the industry moves from tracking only high-value goods into low-value, high-volume markets.

“As new business cases emerge for the IoT as device and connectivity costs continue to decrease, businesses are able to broaden the range of assets they track,” said Ken Everett, CEO of Digital Matter. “With the largest portfolio of battery-powered asset-tracking devices on the market today, the next-generation versions of our devices ensure we are able to meet varying performance, precision and budget requirements as our partners grow and scale their asset-tracking portfolios.”

Digital Matter is a developer of low-power GPS and IoT hardware for asset tracking and management applications. It offers LPWAN asset-tracking hardware with integration-ready battery-powered asset-tracking devices across a range of connectivity technologies. With over 20 years of telematics experience and over 500 channel partners across 120 countries, Digital Matter supplies and supports scalable and secure devices for telematics businesses, IoT service providers, enterprises and network operators around the world.